Cayman Compass,
Tuesday, November 7, 2000
New Station for Payphones
For payphone customers in George Town, there is now a comfortable and convenient place to utilize this service while avoiding the hot sun or pouring rain. Its called an Annex Communication Station, located on School Road in the CNM building.
A joint effort between Cable and Wireless and the National Alliance of Cayman Islands Employees (NACE), the station offers 14 pay phones operated by either coin, credit card or calling cards. It provides an air-conditioned atmosphere, with carpeted floors and a waiting area with chairs. There are two full-time employees who operate a counter where phone cards can be purchased, and a security guard on duty at all times.
“This is the first in a series of projects having to do with providing the community with a resource facility, employment and training”, said Frank Mcfield, secretary of the NACE. He said the opening of the station provided three jobs for unemployed Caymanians, and will also serve as a training ground for other positions and a halfway station to rehabilitate people back into the working environment.
A computer room for Internet access is also anticipated through Cable and Wireless, and NACE says they are also looking into having a money transfer company open a substation there.
“Once this project is up and running the next will be a beauty salon where various vocations can be learned’, he said.
Darline Welcome, president of NAE said “I am overwhelmed that we’ve grown and are still growing, It goes to show that when you come together, you can accomplish anything.’
The new Annex Communication Station will be operated by the NACE, a non- profit organization, with Cable and Wireless being a profit-sharing agent, according to Allee Oyog Fa’ame, Indirect Sales Channel Manager for Cable and Wireless. The station’s hours of operation are from 8am to 12 am daily.
New C&W
rates to Caribbean
Cable & Wireless customers can now call the Caribbean for one flat fe
of CI$10 per callm no matter how long you talkm according to a C&W press
release. The company jas just announced a pla tocharge only CI$10 for
any call to Caribbean destinations where Cabel & Wireless operates during
evenings and weekends. In additionm customers who have registered numbers
in one of these Caribbean destinations as part of their SmartChoice or
Talkaway plans will get their extr discount on top of this geat offer.
The offer applies to calls from the Cayman Islnad sto the following desitnations:
- Anguilla
- Antigua
- Barbados
- Bermuda
- British Virgin Islands
- Dominica
- Grenada
- Montserrat
- St Kitts & Nevis
- St Vincent & Grenadines
- St Lucia
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Trinidad
- Jamaica
The offer is available every night between the hours of 6 PM and 8 AM and throughout the weekend from midnight on Friday to midnight to midnight on Sunday.
General Manager of Cable & Wireless, Cayman Islands, Mr Timothy Adam, said: ‘Cable & Wireless is making good on the commitment we have to our customers back in October last year to reduce our prices. Across the region so far we’ve reduced our international direct dial rates by an average of 27% across the board, we’ve reduced dial-up internet rates, and we’ve lowered the cost of direct connect to the internet for businesses by more than 60% in some cases. That’s a tangible example of demonstrating that we’ve heard our customers and we are responding to their needs. The offer runs from October 20th to December 15th and applies to international direct dialed calls from fixed lines only.